Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South (New Directions in Southern Studies) - Softcover

Buch 11 von 12: New Directions in Southern Studies

Ownby, Ted

 
9781469646992: Hurtin' Words: Debating Family Problems in the Twentieth-Century South (New Directions in Southern Studies)
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ISBN 10: 1469646994 ISBN 13: 9781469646992
Verlag: The University of North Carolina Press, 2018

Inhaltsangabe

When Tammy Wynette sang “D-I-V-O-R-C-E,” she famously said she “spelled out the hurtin' words” to spare her child the pain of family breakup. In this innovative work, Ted Ownby considers how a wide range of writers, thinkers, activists, and others defined family problems in the twentieth-century American South. Ownby shows that it was common for both African Americans and whites to discuss family life in terms of crisis, but they reached very different conclusions about causes and solutions. In the civil rights period, many embraced an ideal of Christian brotherhood as a way of transcending divisions. Opponents of civil rights denounced “brotherhoodism” as a movement that undercut parental and religious authority. Others, especially in the African American community, rejected the idea of family crisis altogether, working to redefine family adaptability as a source of strength. Rather than attempting to define the experience of an archetypal “southern family,” Ownby looks broadly at contexts such as political and religious debates about divorce and family values, southern rock music, autobiographies, and more to reveal how people in the South used the concept of the family as a proxy for imagining a better future or happier past.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ted Ownby is professor of history and Southern Studies and director of the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi.

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Verlag
The University of North Carolina Press
Erscheinungsdatum
2018
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1469646994
ISBN 13 
9781469646992
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Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
354
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